Re: Question for data recovery people...

So...basically...what are my options for recovering this data, spending
the least amount of money on my part?

Paul

Rick Balkins wrote:
> No, it might cost $1 Million or so for the equipment because I don't have
> that kind of equipment that would have the extreme sensitivity plus the
> software analysis software.
> Especially if we are talking 16+ levels of formatting. We have to consider
> data recovery in the most heavily used portions of the disks.
>
> This type of equipment is more or less a full scale lab and usually bought
> buy companies who is in the business of data recovery of MANY disks a year
> at a charge fee that maybe considerable. These businesses usually have
> clients who are businesses with sensitive data.
>
> We have to consider that that is the kind of business that they are.
>
> It isn't a problem if I were a business dealing with 100,000 disks a year
> with a full time staff and a service which services these business at $10
> charge per disk. If I was such a business that did that. Maybe.
>
> At the lowest cost at making a one man station that is sensitive enough
> might cost me probably at least $25,000 to $50,000. We are talking something
> of professional quality.
>
> Either way, it will likely cost me more to get the equipment then what I
> would receive.
>
> A business that does this all the time already have this line of equipment.
>
> It may not cost $1m for a disk to be recovered but might cost closer to
> 10-25K at minimum but still - this depends on how much rewriting of data on
> the disk that you have done SINCE the formatting of the disk. The more
> rewriting - the possibility of needing more sensitive equipment that
> subsequently is MORE expensive plus expert staff to be brought aboard. It
> will COST you big bucks for that kind of work to be done.
>
> Though a cheap makeshift unit might POSSIBLY do the work, the question even
> at the low end figures that we might even look at would dwarf $200. We pay
> often more than that with todays computing devices.
>
> <dunric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1129264194.035079.38030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > It costs $1 million to recover data from a 170.5kb floppy disk?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Rick Balkins wrote:
> >> I don't think any of us has the equipment that will be able to do it.
> >> The $200 is best sent to a business with State of the Art data recovery
> >> equipment capable of upto 16 format level recovery or NSA.
> >>
> >> It is my simple suggestion if you REALLY want the data. Otherwise, I
> >> would
> >> likely give up and move on. Or fine a copy of that version of the
> >> Westfront
> >> online. If you already had publically released it on the web that
> >> version.
> >> It would be easier to get a copy of that version from someone who DLed it
> >> already.
> >>
> >> Of course $200 sounds like a good bit but I won't guarantee recovery BUT
> >> I
> >> wouldn't
> >> take your money UNLESS I can honestly feel that recovery is reasonably
> >> possible and
> >> that I have that level of equipment.
> >>
> >> SO no, I won't take your money because I can not honestly do the data
> >> recovery with my
> >> equipment and that it would cost me probably $1,000,000 just to get the
> >> best
> >> equipment
> >> on the planet Earth for data recovery.
> >>
> >>
> >> <dunric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:1129251090.036140.106290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > ...If I send my disk to you, can you work on recovering the data?
> >> >
> >> > I can offer $200.
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >> >
> >

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